i. Inexhaustible.
ii. Exhaustible.

i. Afforestation
ii. Reforestation
iii. Separation of Commercial Forestry
iv. Grazing

i. Soil Erosion
ii. Desertification
iii. Floods
iv. Destruction of wildlife
v. Climatic Changes

The Govt, of India, has recently instituted an ‘Amrita Devi Bishnoi National Award for wildlife conservation in the memory of Amrita Devi, who in 1931 sacrificed her life along with 363 other for the protection ‘Khejri Trees’ in Kherali Village near Jodhpur in Rajasthan.

Movement originated in Garhwal in early 1970’s that was the result of a grassroot level effort to end the alienation of people from their forest.